MeetStream vs Fireflies.ai
MeetStream is the meeting bot API with a voice agent runtime built in. Bot infrastructure is $0.35 an hour.
Fireflies.ai is priced per seat, from $10 a user a month on Pro. Their shared bot joins the call; here the bot is yours.
What an hour of meeting bot costs
One is a rate per hour, the other a price per seat.
| MeetStream | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | An hour | A seat, every month |
| Published entry price | $0.35 an hour | $10 a user a month, on Pro |
| All in, with transcription | $0.45 an hour | Included in the seat |
| Whose bot joins | Yours | Their shared notetaker |
Ours from the pricing page. Theirs checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026.
Seats bill whether meetings happen or not. Hours bill when a bot runs.
A bot that speaks in the meeting
MeetStream ships an in-meeting voice agent runtime. The bot hears every speaker, reasons, and answers out loud.
Wake words, interruptions and an avatar are settings, not a build. It runs on the bot that records. See voice agents.
Built for agents to build with
One request puts a bot in the call. Media, transcripts and events come back on a webhook you name.
Live audio arrives about 200 milliseconds behind the room. See real-time audio.
An MCP server, a command line tool and a Claude skill ship with it. See developers.
Priced for a team that is still building
$5 of free credit, a key in under a minute, and a bot that carries your own name.
| MeetStream | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 people | $54 | $100 |
| 50 people | $270 | $500 |
| 200 people | $1,080 | $2,000 |
Twelve recorded hours a person a month at $0.45 all in, against $10 a seat on Pro, checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026.
The engineers who build it answer you
Teams on MeetStream get a shared Slack channel with our engineers in it. A webhook question reaches its author.
No support tier to buy, and no gate in front of it. Start on free credit and scale from there.
Your recordings, in your bucket
Thirty days of storage sit inside the rate. Point us at your own bucket and artefacts land there.
Write-only mode means we never read it back. Deletion is self-serve. Setup is on the S3 storage page.
The comparison, row by row
Their figures are the ones they publish, checked on their published pages on 4 September 2026. Not published means we could not find it.
Voice and agents in the meeting
| MeetStream | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| In-meeting voice agent runtime | Yes On the bot that records | Not published |
| Wake words and interruption handling | Yes Barge-in and echo control, per voice agents | Not published |
| Avatar on the bot video tile | Yes Lip-synced, all three platforms | Not published |
| Tool calls from inside the meeting | Yes MCP servers and your functions | Not published |
| MCP server, CLI and agent skills | Yes On the developers page | Not published |
Real time, recording and transcription
| MeetStream | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Programmatic join on all three platforms | Yes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams | Limited Google Meet and Zoom, one mutation |
| Whose bot joins | Yes Your own bot, your own name | Limited Their shared notetaker bot |
| Many meetings joined at once | Yes No published cap | Limited Three live joins per 20 minutes |
| Real-time media to your server | Yes Raw audio, about 200 ms, per the real-time page | Limited Live transcript text, not media |
| Per-participant audio and video streams | Yes All three platforms | Not published |
Price, storage and control
| MeetStream | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Volume and startup rate | Yes Toward $0.25, no application | Not published |
| Storage included | Yes 30 days | Not published |
| Your own bucket, from the first byte | Yes S3 and S3-compatible, write-only | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes On our security page | Not listed |
Certifications move faster than a page like this, so they live on the security page.
The integration, one request
One request, on any of the three platforms. It takes a meeting link and a webhook.
curl -X POST https://api.meetstream.ai/api/v1/bots/create_bot \
-H "Authorization: Token $MEETSTREAM_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "meeting_link": "https://zoom.us/j/74648392", "bot_name": "Acme Notetaker",
"recording_config": {"transcript": {"provider": {"meetstream": {}}}},
"webhook_url": "https://your-app.example.com/meetstream" }'Run both for a week, compare the artefacts, then move the webhook.
Frequently asked questions
Does Fireflies.ai have an API, and can it stream in real time?
Yes. Fireflies publishes a GraphQL API for reading transcripts, summaries and action items from meetings its bot recorded.
It also takes audio uploads, and a Realtime API streams live transcription events.
MeetStream streams the raw per-participant media itself at roughly 200ms, which is the layer you need when your app acts on media.
Can the Fireflies API make a bot join any meeting?
The addToLiveMeeting mutation adds their own shared bot to an ongoing Google Meet or Zoom call, at 3 requests per 20 minutes.
MeetStream deploys your own bot on demand through a single REST call, built for volume, with real-time streams during the call.
What is a Fireflies.ai API alternative for developers?
MeetStream is the infrastructure alternative. One API deploys your own bot into Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.
You get raw per-participant audio and video, in-meeting actions and bring-your-own storage.
You build on the capture layer directly, and pricing is per hour rather than per seat.
Can a MeetStream bot speak in the meeting?
Yes. A voice agent runs on the same bot that records. It hears each speaker, calls your tools and answers out loud.
Wake words, interruptions and an avatar are settings, described on the voice agents page.
Whose bot joins the meeting?
Yours. You name it, you decide when it joins, and the media, transcript and events belong to your account.
Where can I read MeetStream security detail?
On the security page: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 audit status, GDPR and the data residency options, kept current there.
Can I keep recordings in my own bucket?
Yes. Point us at an S3 or S3-compatible bucket and artefacts land there from the first byte, in a write-only mode we never read back.
How current are these numbers?
Every Fireflies.ai figure here was read on their own published pages and checked 4 September 2026.
Tell us what changed and it gets fixed the same week.
Run the comparison yourself
$5 of free credit, a key in under a minute, and every figure above read off a published page.